Convective instabilities in porous media with through flow

✍ Scribed by George M. Homsy; Albert E. Sherwood

• Publisher: American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• Year: 1976
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 722 KB
• Volume: 22
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0001-1541
• DOI: 10.1002/aic.690220121

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

The stability of a thermally stratified, saturated porous media through which mass is being ejected is considered theoretically. The stability parameter is a flow modified D'Arcy‐Rayleigh number and is a function of a single scalar variable, the dimensionless through‐flow strength. Results of both linear and energy theory are given, and it is seen that the fluid can lose stability by either a buoyantly driven mode or by a continuous analogue of the Saffman‐Taylor mode.